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Description: Upper Shaw (formerly listed as Upper Shaw Farmhouse)

Address: Shaw Farm New Road Todmorden OL14 6HP

Grade: IISTAR

Group detail: New Road Langfield

Full description:
House. Mid C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room plan to south front has continuous drip course over ground floor windows. All are double chamfered mullioned with hollow chamfered mullions. Reads, 4-light parlour window with 3-light window over. 5-light housebody window with 3-light window over. 3-light fire-window with 2-light over. Hoodmould terminates in straight return. Doorway with straight lintel, composite jambs and chamfered surround. 3-light window with hoodmould. Over 3-light window. Left hand return wall has extruded stack. Right hand return wall has 4-light window with same over. Rear has 3-light window and doorway same as front forming through passage. Set between to 1st floor is 3-light window. To right of door, circular window with small chamfered light over. Rear kitchen wing breaks forward, has weathered plinth and double chamfered mullioned window of 4 lights and 2 lights with hoodmould over, with a light opened between. 3-light window to 1st floor. Interior: Through passage has timbered doorway with basket arched lintel and reeded jambs. Housebody has bressumer beam carrying stop chamfered spine beams. In fire area is large stone fireplace with corbels, and depressed arched lintel with chamfered surround and cyma moulded shelf. Entry to rear kitchen has stop chamfered surround. Kitchen has large slightly cambered bressumer beam carrying stop chamfered spine beams. King post roof, 2 trusses with 6 'V' struts. One with only angle strut. A fine example of a yeoman clothier's house and unusual in preserving two bressumer beams.